Personally, I just click Start - Run and type "msconfig" then disable pretty much everything under the "startup" tab...
There's very *very* rarely anything in there that needs to be running (except perhaps nwiz, if you have an NVidia graphics card - and maybe antivirus if that's how you roll... personally don't use antivirus software, but I'm a maverick)
If you like MSConfig, try MS Autoruns instead - not only is msconfig is not meant to be anything other than a diagnostic tool but Autoruns shows you all the places things can launch from automatically, and has the provision to delete startup itemsor switch them off, instead of simply moving them to someplace else in the registry.
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